What if the longest-lived people on earth all drink wine — and that's not the interesting part?

In this episode of Read Between the Wines, Pierre Ferland sits down with Dan Buettner — National Geographic explorer, Emmy Award-winning documentary maker, New York Times bestselling author, and the researcher behind one of the most counterintuitive findings in modern longevity science: that across five regions of the world where people routinely live past 100, moderate wine consumption isn't an indulgence. It's infrastructure.

The Blue Zones — from Okinawa to Sardinia, Ikaria to Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula — don't share a supplement, a fitness routine, or a diet app. They share something harder to bottle: daily movement, plant-forward meals eaten slowly, communities built around purpose, and wine consumed the way it was always meant to be. With food. With people. With time.

Dan and Pierre dig into what longevity actually looks like at ground level, what the science says about red wine specifically, and why the way you drink matters as much as what you drink. They also get into storytelling as a public health tool — and why data alone has never once changed anyone's behaviour.

A conversation that will make you feel considerably better about your next glass of Cannonau.

Featuring: Blue Zones, Dan Buettner, longevity, Sardinia, wine and health, Mediterranean diet.